Artist Quote by William Gaddis

A ton of Proust isn’t worth an ounce of Ray Bradbury.

— J. G. Ballard

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

— Jane Birkin

“Reading Proust nearly silenced Virginia Woolf. She loved his novel, but loved it rather too much. There wasn’t enough wrong with it—a crushing recognition…

— Alain de Botton

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

— Jean Cocteau

There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

— Alexander Woollcott

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.

— Jorge Luis Borges

The Web or card experience is not at all going to replicate the book experience, nor is the book experience going to replicate the…

— Rick Riordan

The book is an experience that allows you to witness your feelings without having to surrender to them, to succumb to them, or to…

— Michael Silverblatt

Every book is its own experience, the writing of it.

— Elizabeth Berg

I think writing a book about this experience would be trying to capitalize on it in some way and that's not something I want…

— James Frey

The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.

— Jerry Kramer